>From "Memoirs of Old Princeton" by Harrison W. Straley, II: "I remember distinctly the occasion when Frank James came to Princeton for the purpose of robbing the Bank of Princeton. I can now close my eyes and see the man distinctly, and I even remember the texture of his overcoat which was of the reversible kind, as was worn in those days. the Bank of Princeton was saved from robbery in the first place, because it was so insignificant and dilapidated in appearance that Frank James doubtless considered that an attempt to rob such a pigmy of a bank would be a reflection upon his skill as a burglar; and the second reason was, not doubt, the fact that Judge Johnston*, vice president of the bank and a Civil War veteran, invited Frank James to his home for dinner and the James brothers uniformly refused to rob a banking institution presided over and owned by an ex-Confederate soldier." *Judge David E. Johnston, son of Oscar F. and Elizabeth Straley Johnston) was born in Giles County, VA, April 10, 1846 and married Sarah E. Pearis, 1868-69. He enlisted in the Confederate army when 16;: Company D. Ninth Virginia Regiment, and served through the war. Wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. Rebecca Beeman Shumaker

The McNutt house is still standing and the Mercer County Historial Society is current restoring it.

To Lee Hash and others interested: Harrison Straley, II, tells the story of Jesse James in his "Memoirs of Old Princeton". I have a copy which the Mercer Co. Historial Society reprinted in 1975. The original manuscript was likely written during or shortly after the Civil War. I will look for the passage in writings regarding Jesse James if you'd like me to. This writing has very good information on the early settlers of Mercer Co. (Giles/Tazewell areas). It does not have an index. I hope to index the surnames soon and will send it to the Wyoming, Mercer, Giles rootweb lists. Rebecca Beeman Shumaker, MSW Researching Bartley, Mullins, Scarberry, Flanagan, Bishop in Wyoming County

Brenda, Do you know a Jake Dillon who lived at Ravencliff?? He wrote several interesting books. Lee Hash

Rebecca Shumaker you are a jewell. This was most interesting about Johnston and James. Thanks for enlightning us. Are you from Wyoming County by chance ? Lee Hash

I have read about the story---I believe he came to Princeton Wva and stayed at a hotel across the street from the only house that was not burned during the war---he was to stay at the McNutt home i believe but did not---He left the town and did not rob the bank that he planned to because he thought the town was too POOR not knowing a lot of money as at the home Will check out the story and let you know more later---maybe some others have more info on this story---bob pruett ----- Original Message ----- From: <LeeHash@aol.com> To: <WVWYOMIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:08 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Re: Wyoming County > Good Morning Bob Pruett, > The information is from others. I recently received the Ledger of Rev. G.P. > Goode and am transcribing it now. I am very late on the work of the > Guyandotte Baptist Church records, just the first record book completed. > That takes a lot of research to identify the places and people mentioned in > the minuts. I did complete the first 100 years fo the minutes of the > Rockcastle Baptist Church, reserving the last two copies. > My research is of the Old John Hash descendants of which my gtgt grandparents > lived in Ashe county N.C. About finished with that family. > On the Rev. Goode's writings, I need some family stories of the Civil War > era in Wyoming County and lots and lots of pictures of those early settlers. > Pictures I will "add" to the "Picture Gallery" section of his works. > Any help from you or others will be greatly appreciated by future readers and > researchers of Wyoming County. > Thanks a lot for your comments. Do you know the story of Jesse James who > came through Bluefield, Va. ?? > Have a nice day, > Lee Hash > >

Thanks Bob, That's exciting. I also heard, years ago, that he did visit the bank and was shown around by the President. It was also told that he recognizes Jesse and fully explained the security of the bank. Also said that the town was poor. Let's hope others will have stories to add. Lee Hash

Lee you seem to have a world of information that i was wondering what family lines are you researching---in wva and va---bob pruett in bluefield va ----- Original Message ----- From: <LeeHash@aol.com> To: <WVWYOMIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 9:19 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Jesse Poe > Hello Trina, > I understand Ole Saint Nick will visit our humble place in Culpeper in a few > days. He has been "INSTRUCTED" to leave a scanner for my computer. Will > scan Jesse Poe and Nancy Wyatt picture for yoy and drop it on line. > Till then have a wonderful and a very nice Christmas > Lee Hash (not RD Bailey) > >

Good Morning Bob Pruett, The information is from others. I recently received the Ledger of Rev. G.P. Goode and am transcribing it now. I am very late on the work of the Guyandotte Baptist Church records, just the first record book completed. That takes a lot of research to identify the places and people mentioned in the minuts. I did complete the first 100 years fo the minutes of the Rockcastle Baptist Church, reserving the last two copies. My research is of the Old John Hash descendants of which my gtgt grandparents lived in Ashe county N.C. About finished with that family. On the Rev. Goode's writings, I need some family stories of the Civil War era in Wyoming County and lots and lots of pictures of those early settlers. Pictures I will "add" to the "Picture Gallery" section of his works. Any help from you or others will be greatly appreciated by future readers and researchers of Wyoming County. Thanks a lot for your comments. Do you know the story of Jesse James who came through Bluefield, Va. ?? Have a nice day, Lee Hash

Hello Trina, I understand Ole Saint Nick will visit our humble place in Culpeper in a few days. He has been "INSTRUCTED" to leave a scanner for my computer. Will scan Jesse Poe and Nancy Wyatt picture for yoy and drop it on line. Till then have a wonderful and a very nice Christmas Lee Hash (not RD Bailey)

Becky, Could you send me your info on John Collins as I also am searching for a man by that name. Brenda RChris1105@aol.com wrote: > Lee, > > What case was this grand jury handling that resulted in eight inditments? > What yr. was this? Am trying to find info on a John Collins who served time > in Moundsville. > Tks. > Becky

R. D., I know an R. D. Bailey from WV. Is your wife's name Sharon? Jeannie Watts ************* Jeannie Watts Now Available: "The Descendants of John Thomas Clay, Jamestown Immigrant and son of Sir John Clay of Wales" Also available: "The Descendants of James Bailey & Lucy Simms" For more info: http://www.trellis.net/users/madamx

Hi: I'm just sending a quick note off right now (without my files in front of me) to let you all know that I am researching the above families as well. I have information on the couple below Archibald Gunnoe & Phebe Lawhorn as well as some more on the families listed above in Wyoming County. My particular interest is St. Clair but I keep finding more and more evidence to support the fact that these families traveled around southern WV/VA area together as well as marrying into each other's families. I have seen evidence of this in Wyoming Co, as well as Monroe Co. WV, Mercer Co. WV, Giles Co. VA. I will try and get my files out this weekend or early next week at the latest. This might be the breakthrough I have been looking for trying to find my *missing link* to the St. Clairs/Sinklers of Bedford Co. VA. Looking forward to sharing with all of you soon. Amber (St. Clair) Dalakas -----Original Message----- From: Douglas A. Bishop <dbishop2@ameritech.net> To: WVWYOMIN-L@rootsweb.com <WVWYOMIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Gunnoe >Hi Becky, > >I checked for name of Harvey Morgan in the Wyo. Co. Marriage Records and >found the following listing. I don't know why it doesn't list a >marriage under the name of Martha Ellen Gunnoe. > >MORGAN, Harvey - age 35, bn. Logan Co., son/o Jonathan & Nancy married >GUNNOE, Martha - age 19, bn. Mercer Co., dau/o Archabel & Chebe on >21 Mar 1867. > >This couple is listed in 1870 Wyo. Co. Census. >Martha Gunnoe's parents are listed as; Archabald & Phebe (Lawhorn) >Gunnoe. > >Thanks, Doug > >Bcraw923@aol.com wrote: >> >> I have a Martha Ellen Gunnoe married to Harvey G. Morgan about 1867. Can >> anyone tell me who her parents were? I haven't a thing on that line...yet. >> Thanks..Becky > >

Hi Sally Williams, Just received the latest publication on the Families of Wyoming County and it is LOADED with good stuff. Noted that along with you and others, that many of Wyoming Co. family researchers among whom are Darrell Miller who are not on line and the printed matter is their limits. Those researchers have tons and tons of precious history to share. Keep up the good work. Will put a another log in the fireplace, pour a BIG mug of hot cocoa and have a feast. Thanks a lot. Lee Hassh

Gary and I have been in communication several times as our lines are so close but we can't find the "needle" in the haystack. My John W. Collins born 1797 VA/TN s/o Meredith Collins & Polly Holloway left his father's home about 1820 and while visiting relatives married Lydia Toner 1821 Grainger Co. TN( marriage bond is signed by Griffin Collins) John W. & wife Lydia had at least two children in TN before moving to the area of Tazewell Co. Virginia(later to become McDowell Co.) Children include:John W. Jr, William, Benjamin, Jacob, Ira and possibly Margaret Collins. I am not sure when Lydia died but last find her on 1860 census of Tazewell Co.( later to become McDowell) however on the same census John W. is also found in the household with a new spouce, mary Polly Roark. ( records in Clay Co. KY have them there together in 1852 )1860&70 census of McDowell Co. list this family as John W. ,Polly his wife, son Alfred, daughter Arnetta, and son Richard ( my ggrandfather) Richard moved to Nicholas Co. to live with uncle after parents died (need death records believed to be in McDowell Co.) Richard then married Fidella ,d/o Catherine Taylor. They had 11 children one my grandfather Ervin Walker Collins. When ask where the Walker come from I am told 1) it is a family name and 2) it is Native American meaning "walker of the tribe". I still am not sure what the "W" stands for in John W. Collins. So as you can see we both have Richard, both connect to Grainger Co. TN and both have Walker in the line but no connection. Any help appreciated. Brenda LeeHash@aol.com wrote: > --part1_0.121afa3c.257a7849_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Gary gave permission to send this for all. Thanks Gary. > Gary my Rozetta was not related to Collins. > Lee > > --part1_0.121afa3c.257a7849_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-path: GColl51288@aol.com > From: GColl51288@aol.com > Full-name: GColl51288 > Message-ID: <0.eac866db.25780ed4@aol.com> > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:05:08 EST > Subject: Collins/Walker > To: LeeHash@aol.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 44 > > Lee, > Hi, my name is Gary Collins, I have been watching some of your postings > to the Wyo. Co. WV lists. It sounds like you are researching some of the same > area that I am. Huff creek, Clear fork township, any in Oceana. I too am > looking for Collins family and Walker. My grgrandfather was Richard Collins, > his wife Nancy (Blair) moved to Wyo. Co. between 1850 and 1860. They moved > from Grainger Co. Tenn with other members of the Collins family. Richard and > Nancy appear on the 1860 Census. Richard 26, Nancy 29, John 10 (my > grandfather) Scott 5, Mary 3, Viney and Emily 2, Pearis 7/12. (456-403) > Things get cloudly after civil war, cannt find Richard. Nancy and some kids > on 1880 census Clear fork area, 65-65 Nancy 50, Emily and Melvina 22, Lane > 17, sarah 15, William 10, I think this is the Nancy Collins who married > William Walker Sr. > My Walker line is also from Wyo. Co. My Grandwmother was Rosie Walker > said to be a lot younger then my grandfather John Collins. He was to have had > another family before marriage to Rosie. Grandma's father's name was either > John or James. I think she was born around 1870-7. > Does any of this sound familiar with your work? > Gary > gcoll51288@aol.com > > --part1_0.121afa3c.257a7849_boundary--

Hi Everyone, Brenda was not the only person to respond to my message on this heredity disease, PKD. So I am sharing this information on a new list. Also, I am inviting everyone tracing this disease to join us on this list and share family lines. Doris Send only the word SUBSCRIBE to PKD-L-request@health.rootsweb.com and then to post to the list use this address: PKD-L@health.rootsweb.com At 07:09 PM 09/12/1999 -0800, you wrote: >Doris, >I was dianosed with PKD in 1972 and my kidney's are at 30% right now. I recently >found out that my gggrandfather Johnnie Spencer son of Washington; son of James >Spencer (Greenbrier Co) died from a kidney disease and the cousin that gave me >this info lost a sibbling and son to this same disease. >Brenda Collins Dillon > >Doris Slaughter wrote: >> At 10:21 AM 09/12/1999 -0800, you wrote: > I have been researching all of the GRAHAM lines in Wyoming County to >> trace a heredity disease (Polycystic Kidney Disease) to see if it came >> through my Father's Graham line or through his Mother's Howerton line. If a >> death record can be found the cause of death was probable listed as "Bright's >> Disease of the Kidneys." >> Thanks, Doris

It was not until the author visted his "Uncle Moses"Cline at his home by Gilbert Creek in 1938 that the family names mentioned above were brought to his attention again. "Uncle Moses"knew the families, somewhat later than "grandpa's"days in West Virginia to be sure, but knowing their descendants or the individuals themselves in later years, he had heard of the people of the 1860'sand 1870's. He knew about Jacob Cline's departure by raft from the mouth of the Alum Creek down the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River in 1871. "Uncle Mose"was three years old at that time, but the departure evidently was an event talked about for many years afterward. He knew that "grandpa's" sisters had married Mounts,Trent, Sanson,Carey, and French men. He knew that "grnadma" had been a Collins from the family of William"Bill" Collins on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork. As we drove up the Gilbert Creek Valley from the village of Gilbert, we were impressed by the fact that one out of every two or three mailboxes was Cline, and the others were mainly Hatfield, Mounts, Trent, etc."Uncle Mose"said that times were changing, but up to a few years before our conversation, children tendedto marry and live in the valley where they were born;employment in the coal industry had made that possible. When "UncleMose" took us over the ridges on barley passable roads to "grandpa's"old home site in Alum Creek Valley, it was so easy to understand why young people tended to marry spouces from families of their adjacent valleys. Travel beyound the local valleys was difficult in 1938 and must have been very much more difficult in the earlier years. As PART1 of this book was being developed, it seemed that the interrelationships among the families that became affiliated with the Clines in that relativly closed society of the pages that followed, focusing on families whose members intermarried with the Clines and including marriages between members of different Cline families.

Because of the interest in this family and it connects to so many Wyoming County families I am going to post some of the book. Hope you find it of interest and that it helps somebody. The book is not indexed and makes it difficult to do lookups. Clines of WV and connecting Families.....authored by Marlin Cline (w/ permission) The author remembers his grandparents and two of his uncles who had been teenagers when they left WV talking about families and individuals they had left behind. The names had little meaning to so small a boy at that time, names like Blankenship,Collins, Mounts, Sanson,Trent, Charles and Carey. Jacob Cline ,Sr,and his older two sons evidently remembered their old home by Alum Creek and the people they had known with nostalgia,though it was some 45 years after they left for Minnesota. It was not the names themselves that impressed themselves on the memory of so young a boy, but the stories that were told about the people...stories of wild battles among the young men and big boys using over-ripe-pawpaws as ammunition, and stories about the men of various families hiding in the hills when bands of maurauding raiders came ravaging the homes and stealing cattle durning the Civil War. The author was never sure whether Jacob Cline sympathized with the Union or the Confederacy durning these times. The Jacob Cline family was noncommital on the subject. Most of the hill people on the Virginia(WV) border with kentucky were Confederate sympathizers even though WV separated from Virginia on the side of the Union in 1863. It is likely that Jacob Cline favored the Confedercy with his friends of the Hatfield clan, tho this small boy was convienced that he was on the winning side. It probably made little difference for his family and possessions because the guerilla bandsa that raided through the Valley were there mainly for plunder. We do know that "grandpa" hid in the wooded hills more than once when word was passed that raiders were comming. Apparently they did not molest women and children, but "grandpa" lost much property.Still, it was such stories as these that left memories of the family names which the author would recall when he began his research into his family history many years later. continued

Doris, I was dianosed with PKD in 1972 and my kidney's are at 30% right now. I recently found out that my gggrandfather Johnnie Spencer son of Washington; son of James Spencer (Greenbrier Co) died from a kidney disease and the cousin that gave me this info lost a sibbling and son to this same disease. Brenda Collins Dillon Doris Slaughter wrote: > At 10:21 AM 09/12/1999 -0800, you wrote: > >Hi everyone, > >I was hoping that just maybe someone out there can shed some light on the > Tolers and the Clines from Wyoming Co..my line is Charlotte "Lottie" Toler(GM) > and her parents Issac Edward"ED" Toler and Mary Elizabeth"Bettie" > Cline...Bettie was a midwife and delivered lots of babys in Wyoming Co...they > were married on Feb.6,1874 in Wyo. Co and George H. Williams performed the > ceremony.. > >Thanks > > Hi Bea, > If you are look for more information on Issac Edward"ED" Toler and > Mary > Elizabeth"Bettie" Cline children than I have their daughter: > Sarah Elizabeth Toler who was married 26 Dec 1889 in Wyoming County, WV > (Marriage Book 3 page 238) to WILLIAM AARON^6 GRAHAM, s/o LUKE^5 GRAHAM and > Elizabeth Jane Slusser. On the Marriage Records Sarah was listed as "age 14." > I have been researching all of the GRAHAM lines in Wyoming County to > trace a heredity disease (Polycystic Kidney Disease) to see if it came > through my Father's Graham line or through his Mother's Howerton line. If a > death record can be found the cause of death was probable listed as "Bright's > Disease of the Kidneys." > Thanks, Doris > > **************************************************************************** > *********** > Doris Slaughter <dslaughter@hcis.net> > Doris Slaughter <dslaughter@Bigfoot.com> Preferred > SHREWSBURY, GRAHAM, HOWERTON, and MCKINNEY

Hi Becky, I checked for name of Harvey Morgan in the Wyo. Co. Marriage Records and found the following listing. I don't know why it doesn't list a marriage under the name of Martha Ellen Gunnoe. MORGAN, Harvey - age 35, bn. Logan Co., son/o Jonathan & Nancy married GUNNOE, Martha - age 19, bn. Mercer Co., dau/o Archabel & Chebe on 21 Mar 1867. This couple is listed in 1870 Wyo. Co. Census. Martha Gunnoe's parents are listed as; Archabald & Phebe (Lawhorn) Gunnoe. Thanks, Doug Bcraw923@aol.com wrote: > > I have a Martha Ellen Gunnoe married to Harvey G. Morgan about 1867. Can > anyone tell me who her parents were? I haven't a thing on that line...yet. > Thanks..Becky